Jumper Trailer

The only thing I hate worse than movies based on video games, are video games based on movies.

So, I was a little freaked out by how excited I was by the trailer for Jumper, the game based on the movie and the teenybopper novel by Stephen Gould. I mean… if done right this game could really kick some serious ass, I totally wanna teleport someone into a shark tank… I mean, who doesn’t? Apparently the game follows the Jamie Bell character Griffin, who desperately wants to be a ballet dancer, but his father wants him to be a Boxer, blah, blah, blah… TELEPORTATION!

I should have stopped after watching the trailer, cause now I’ve gone and ruined the surprise for myself. This game looks like it might really suck, and gloriously so! Developed by Brash Entertainment, the same development powerhouse that brought the cinematic masterpiece Alvin and the Chipmunks to the PS2! Take a peek at these screens, the frosted side of me is holding out hope that they’re from the PS2 version and the 360 version will actually look like a next-gen game, but the wheaty side of me knows it isn’t true. It looks like they’ve just reused the graphics and combat engine that made Matrix: Path of Neo nearly unplayable.

Seems like the game relies upon Griffin’s teleportation skills which allow him to “jump within hand-to-hand combat range of an enemy to start dishing out devastating blows” using a “exciting and intense layered combo fighting system”, Griffin can also use finishing moves to “instantly teleport enemies to exotic perilous locations to finish them”. Meh.

Trailer after the jump.